Copyright, 1898
By Lamson, Wolffe and Company
All rights reserved
Press of
Rockwell and Churchill
BOSTON

Contents

Chapter Page
I.Philip’s Home[1]
II.Dash[15]
III.Philip’s Mother[29]
IV.Mag’s Story[42]
V.Philip’s Father[56]
VI.A New Friend[73]
VII.A Mining Tragedy[87]
VIII.A Great Change[106]
IX.Trials and Pleasures[120]
X.Aunt Delia’s Secret[134]
XI.A Day at Ashden[148]
XII.The Renewal of an Acquaintance[163]
XIII.Lord Ashden’s Plan[175]
XIV.Off for Italy[190]
XV.Drifting[210]
XVI.Home Again[225]
XVII.Marion[240]
XVIII.The Concert[254]
XIX.Fire[271]
XX.The End[285]

Philip
The Story of a Boy Violinist

Chapter I
Philip’s Home

HIS days were nearly all spent in a place where there were great heights and depths, long corridors and galleries, with many people passing to and fro, many chambers above and below, and elevators running up and down. A great hotel, do you say? No, nothing so grand or pleasant as that, but a deep, dark, dismal mine; and there, from dawn till after nightfall, Philip and his mother spent the long, sun-bright days in a sort of living death. It was really like that, for what is life worth in a place where the sun never comes, where there is no grass nor flowers nor trees, where the beautiful blue sky with its snow-white flying cloudlets or great, gray, snow-capped cloud-mountains cannot be seen, and where there is nothing but the darkness of night all the day long!